Picture-frame.



No. 759,840. PATENTED MAY 10, 1904. L. BRAND.

PICTURE FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.ZB. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Flo. 759,8d0;

PatentedMay 10, 1904..

LOIIIS BRAND, OF ANGFLES, CALIFORNIA.

Homeseme,

FJPFCIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,840, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed October 28, 1902. Serial No. 129,180. (No model.)

To all whom, it mag concern:

Be it known that I, Louis BRAND, of Los Angelcs, m thecounty of Los Angeles and 'fiitate of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement 1n P1cture-.

Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the annexed drawings.

This invention, which relates to certain improvemcnts in picture-frames, has for its object to enable any picture-frame to be used for holding pictures of difierent sizes; and

the invention consists in constructing such frames of parts which fit into each other with frictional contact in such manner that the several parts are capableof being slid upon each other lengthwise, while maintaining the rectilinear form of theframe, so that the frame may be adjusted to fit pictures of different dimensions and of different proportions of length or width.

Upon the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a picture-frame constructed according to my invention, theldotted portion of the figure representing one of the enlargements of which the frame is capable. Fig. 2 is a side or edge elevation corresponding to Fig. 1, the dotted portion corresponding to the enlargement shown dotted in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line a a, Fig. 1, the dotted portion corresponding to the enlargement shown dotted in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlargement and exaggerated transverse section of one side or member of the adjustable picture-frame whose parts or members are of a triangular cross-section. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of one side or member of the adjustable picture-frame whose section is a square. Fig. 6 is another transverse section of one side or member of the adjustable picture-frame of molded form. Fig. 7 is an end elevation of the fastening device and ornament-carrier of my adjustable picture-frame.

As shown by Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 7 of the drawings, my picture-frame consists of hollow metallic tubular parts, .respectively marked A B C I), each of which consists of two members at right angles to each other 5 and united at right angles to each other by the miter-joints E, as shown at each corner of the frame. The metal of which these tubular 7 parts or members are constructed is thin and drawn or rolled into circular or cylindrical or other sections of such dimension that the parts or members which are slid upon or into each other lit closely, but with such sufiicient frictional freedom for being moved upon each other that a picture-frame so constructed is readily adjusted to any dimension required by pulling or pushing. the slidable parts thereof either lengthwise or transversely, or both lengthwise and transversely,

until the frame has been adjusted to the dimensions requisite for containing any picture or other representation or printed or written matter which it may be required to place in such frame. The inner part of each side member and of the top and bottom members of the frame have a continuous parallel opening IL (shown at Fig. 3 and in the enlarged sectional Views Figs. I, 5, and 6) formed in them to receive the picture, as indicated in Fig. 3 by the line F, also the back-boardGand the sheet of glass II when the picture is glazed; but the sheet of glass may or may not be used, as desired.

It is not possible to represent in section in the drawings the inner and outer tubes of which my improved frame is constructed as in sliding contact with each other, and for this reason the inner and outer tubes in Fig. 3 are represented with the thin black circle between corresponding with the opening L, through which the picture F, back-board G, and glass Ii pass, and by tightening the thumb-screw J of each such ring I the tubes of the frame which it embraces are pinched 01' held tightly in any adjusted position and are capable of being slid to and fastened at the center of each side of the frame in all positions of adjusted dimensions of the frame, also of holding the ornaments M, which are covered by the rings I, at the center of each side of the frame, thereby rendering the whole ;symmetrical. Each of the pinching-screws has a hole 0 in it, through any two of which opposite holes the ends of a suspension-cord are fastened for hanging the picture-frame, or my improved frame may be supported by an adjustable prop or easel-bar N, as shown at Figs. 1 and 2.

When theimproved picture-frame is used for resting upon any flat surfacesuch as a table, counter, or other supportand for being supported by an easel-bar, its corners are provided with points 6, which engage with any such flat surface sufliciently to prevent the frame from slipping thereon.

Having now described my invention, what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim to be secured to me by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. A picture-frame of slidably-movable parts or members, the opposite slidable parts being parallel and the adjacent slidable parts I at right angles to each other, each sliding member consisting of'two tubes of thin metal,

one within the other, and having alongitudinal opening or slit throughout the inner edges of the horizontal and vertical members, the sliding parts having miter-joints, and being held together in any adjustable position by frictional contact of the sliding parts substantion by said rings and screws, substantially as hereinbefore described.

- LOUIS BRAND.

Witnesses:

ST. J OHN DAY, B. M. WILKINS. 

